XVII International Chopin Piano Competition

The XVII International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XVII Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held in Warsaw on April 13–24, 2015 (preliminary round) and October 1–23, 2015 (main competition and concerts).[1] Prize winners' concerts were on October 21–23, 2015.

The Seventeenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
Official poster
DateApril 13–24, 2015 (2015-04-13 – 2015-04-24) (preliminary round)
October 1–23, 2015 (2015-10-01 – 2015-10-23) (main stage)
VenueNational Philharmonic, Warsaw
Hosted byFryderyk Chopin Institute
Winner Seong-Jin Cho
Websitewww.chopincompetition2015.com

Seong-Jin Cho of South Korea won the competition.[2]

Awards
The finals

Seong-Jin Cho won the competition, playing the Piano Concerto in E minor, Opus 11 in the final. The prize money was €30,000. In addition, he also won the €3,000 prize for best polonaise, playing the Polonaise in A flat major, Opus 53 in the second stage.[3]

Charles Richard-Hamelin of Canada came second, Kate Liu of the United States came third, Eric Lu of the United States came fourth, Tony Yike Yang of Canada came fifth, and Dmitry Shishkin of Russia was placed sixth.[4] The following prizes were awarded:

Prize Winner
€30,000 Seong-Jin Cho  South Korea
€25,000 Charles Richard-Hamelin  Canada
€20,000 Kate Liu  United States
4th €15,000 Eric Lu  United States
5th €10,000 Tony Yike Yang  Canada
6th €7,000 Dmitry Shishkin  Russia
F €4,000 Aljoša Jurinić  Croatia
€4,000 Aimi Kobayashi  Japan
€4,000 Szymon Nehring  Poland
€4,000 Georgijs Osokins  Latvia

In addition, four special prizes were awarded independently:

Special prize Winner
Best Performance of a Concerto not awarded
Best Performance of Mazurkas Kate Liu  United States
Best Performance of a Polonaise Seong-Jin Cho  South Korea
Best Performance of a Sonata Charles Richard-Hamelin  Canada

Jury

The juries consisted of:[5]

Preliminary Round jury

Competition jury

Philippe Entremont caused controversy when he gave Seong-Jin Cho, the winner of the competition, a score of just 1 in the final, the lowest possible score. This was a substantial deviation from the other jurors; 14 of the 17 jurors gave Cho 9 or more points, leading to speculation that Entremont had trouble with Cho's teacher Michel Béroff.[6] A popular conjecture that Entremont may have been racially motivated could not be proven by statistical analysis.[7]

Competitor results

Yes: percentage of jurors who voted to pass the participant to the next round (excluding recusals)

Pts: average number of points (excluding recusals)

CompetitorPrelim. Stage I Stage II Stage III Final
R Yes Pts R Yes Pts R Yes Pts R Pts R
Mihyun Ahn
Jong Do An
Yu An
Soo Jung Ann 78.6% 19.00 33.3% 17.76
Miyako Arishima 69.2% 18.47 7.1% 15.75
Bat-Erdene Batbileg
Otis William Beasley
Tymoteusz Bies 53.3% 17.76
Rafał Błaszczyk 14.3% 16.38
Łukasz Piotr Byrdy 73.3% 18.53 35.7% 17.50
Michelle Candotti 80.0% 19.41 7.1% 16.75
Luigi Carroccia 93.3% 20.24 78.6% 20.06 13.3% 18.18
Hsin-Jo Chan
Haoguo Chen
Xuehong Chen
Galina Chistiakova 86.7% 19.35 78.6% 20.69 40.0% 19.00
Irina Chistiakova 26.7% 17.00
Seong-Jin Cho 100% 23.24 92.9% 22.50 93.3% 23.29 8.411
Shaun Yung Sheng Choo
Valentin Cotton
Aleksandra Hortensja Dąbek
Chisaki Doi
Fei-Fei Dong
Michał Dziewior
Thibaud Epp
Martina Frezzotti
Ashley Fripp 33.3% 16.71
Madoka Fukami
Yasuko Furumi 13.3% 16.71
Anton Gerzenberg
Saskia Giorgini 0.0% 15.35
Katarzyna Gołofit Withdrew
Eriko Gomita
Adam Mikołaj Goździewski 53.3% 17.65
Ivett Gyöngyösi 80.0% 19.65 28.6% 17.38
Anna Han
Chi Ho Han 86.7% 20.71 57.1% 19.31 26.7% 19.29
Olof Hansen 73.3% 19.00 21.4% 16.88
Minsoo Hong
Ruoyu Huang
Zhi Chao Julian Jia 93.3% 21.12 21.4% 17.13
Wenbin Jin
Aljoša Jurinić 80.0% 20.24 50.0% 18.81 50.0% 20.31 2.94
Joo Yeon Ka 0.0% 15.47
Takuya Kambara
Airi Katada
Ruslan Kazakov
Daye Kim
Honggi Kim 33.3% 17.00
Su Yeon Kim 66.7% 18.35 50.0% 19.31 7.1% 17.44
Sung-Jae Kim
Sunhwa Kim
Yedam Kim 53.3% 17.71
Yoon-Jee Kim
Yoonji Kim
Yurika Kimura 33.3% 17.53
Dinara Klinton—[8] 100% 22.00 57.1% 19.44 42.9% 19.81
Carmen Knoll
Aimi Kobayashi 93.3% 21.29 85.7% 19.75 50.0% 19.13 4.35
Kaito Kobayashi
Julia Kociuban
Aika Kondo
Qi Kong 66.7% 19.18 28.6% 17.94
Marek Kozák 80.0% 18.94 64.3% 19.25 0.0% 18.41
Mischa Kozłowski
Łukasz Krupiński—[9] 60.0% 17.82 57.1% 19.13 0.0% 17.94
Krzysztof Książek—[10] 80.0% 18.82 64.3% 18.69 46.7% 20.12
Rachel Naomi Kudo—[11] 64.3% 18.75 35.7% 17.81
Chulmin Lee
EunAe Lee
Jae Yoon Lee
Yurim Lee
George Li Withdrew
Ning Yuen Li Withdrew
Yihao Li
Kate Liu 71.4% 18.88 92.9% 21.31 100% 23.44 7.503
Eric Lu—[12] 100% 21.81 85.7% 21.13 92.9% 22.13 6.444th
Tian Lu 26.7% 16.82
Xin Luo 50.0% 17.63
Weiwen Ma
Aleksandr Maltsev
Roman Martynov 20.0% 16.18
Nagino Maruyama 53.3% 18.18
Guillaume Masson
Viktor Yuandong Mattsson
Vladimir Matusevich Withdrew
Alessandro Mazzamuto
Nao Mieno 20.0% 16.88
Łukasz Mikołajczyk 86.7% 19.35 20.0% 17.65
Nathalia Milstein
Paweł Motyczyński 40.0% 17.24
Alexia Mouza 86.7% 20.76 40.0% 16.35
Jiyeong Mun Withdrew
Karolina Nadolska
Kotaro Nagano
Mayaka Nakagawa 93.3% 20.65 13.3% 17.06
Nozomi Nakagiri—[13] 57.1% 17.69
Fuyuko Nakamura
Yui Nakamura
Szymon Nehring 86.7% 20.59 73.3% 19.53 53.3% 19.47 3.41
Anastasiia Nesterova 26.7% 16.88
Grzegorz Niemczuk
Ronald Noerjadi 46.7% 18.25
Mariko Nogami 46.7% 17.56
Piotr Nowak 85.7% 20.19 50.0% 18.25
Arisa Onoda 53.3% 18.76 6.7% 16.24
Georgijs Osokins 93.3% 21.35 93.3% 21.53 80.0% 20.88 3.59
Misora Ozaki
Linzi Pan
Jinhyung Park 64.3% 18.81 33.3% 17.94
Piotr Ryszard Pawlak 64.3% 18.00
Zuzanna Pietrzak 21.4% 16.13
Adam Piórkowski
François-Xavier Poizat
Tiffany Poon 28.6% 17.25
Markiyan Popil
Kausikan Rajeshkumar 14.3% 15.25
Kiana Reid
Charles Richard-Hamelin 100% 22.38 100% 22.65 100% 23.53 8.122
Joanna Różewska-Kulasińska
Arisa Sakai
Tamila Salimdjanova 30.8% 17.00
Cristian Ioan Sandrin 7.1% 15.63
Motohiro Sato
Natalie Schwamová 35.7% 18.06
Aristo Sham Withdrew
Boyang Shi 0.0% 16.00
HyoJin Shin
Dmitry Shishkin 64.3% 18.94 93.3% 20.76 60.0% 20.24 4.416th
Alexandra Sikorskaya
Jeung Beum Sohn
Szuyu Su
Rina Sudo 71.4% 18.44 20.0% 17.41
Yekwon Sunwoo
Michał Szymanowski 100% 20.54 46.2% 18.43
Julia Maria Śliwa
Rikono Takeda 23.1% 17.07
Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev 92.9% 20.13 20.0% 16.24
Alexei Tartakovsky 71.4% 18.56 66.7% 20.06 40.0% 19.65
Hin-Yat Tsang 46.2% 18.27
Kanade Tsurusawa
Anna Ulaieva
Alexander Ullman 69.2% 18.67 42.9% 17.63
Chao Wang 71.4% 19.25 46.7% 18.35
Chelsea Wang
Zhu Wang 38.5% 18.20
Marcin Wieczorek
Andrzej Wierciński—[14] 92.3% 19.93 42.9% 18.50
Evan Wong
Victoria Wong
Joshua Wright
Yuchong Wu 21.4% 17.38
Qi Xu
Zi Xu 84.6% 20.13 57.1% 18.63 21.4% 18.56
Tony Yike Yang 100% 21.40 85.7% 21.19 100% 21.88 4.565th
Yuliya Yermalayeva 28.6% 17.56
Tianpeng Yu
Olga Zado (Zadorozhniuk)
Cheng Zhang 85.7% 21.44 40.0% 17.59
Chuhan Zhang 42.9% 18.06
Annie Zhou 100% 20.67 21.4% 17.19
Ning Zhou
Anastasia Zorina

References
  1. Calendar for The International Chopin Piano Competition 2015
  2. SEONG-JIN CHO WON THE 17TH CHOPIN COMPETITION
  3. "South Korean Seong-Jin Cho wins Chopin piano competition". BBC. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. "South Korean Seong-Jin Cho Wins Chopin Piano Competition". ABC. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  5. The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition – Jurors
  6. "1 juror gives 1/10 to the winner of the Chopin piano competition". The Dong-a Ilbo. 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  7. Jeon, Gyuhyeon; Park, Juyong (2016-08-08). "Jury-Contestant Bipartite Competition Network: Identifying Biased Scores and Their Impact on Network Structure Inference". arXiv:1608.02326 [physics.soc-ph].
  8. Admitted as winner of the 2nd prize at 2013 International Paderewski Piano Competition
  9. Admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
  10. Admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw
  11. Admitted as 2nd Prize winner of the 2015 USA National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami
  12. Admitted as winner of the 2015 USA National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami
  13. Admitted as winner of the 2nd Prize at the 2012 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
  14. Admitted as winner of the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw

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